obama? david cody, i see you smiling down there. >> i was waiting for judd to jump in on discussion about the v.a.t. tax. he's the one that convinced me. >> i think ultimately they've got more than they can handle. and the revenue targets they need to reaching or the spending targets they need to reach now aren't enormous but if you look down the road, in particular at health care spending, given the discussion we've had before, we can do everything we want to try to control health care spend bug another way to help control health care spending is to earmark the val added tax revenue toward earmark spening which would have an immediate link between how much we spend, how much people have to pay in taxes, it would eliminate the regressivity of the v.a.t. because people were getting benefits for what they were paying for and it would, make a bad health pun, it would inoculate the deficit from uncertainty about health care reform. so health care reform will take a long time, it's even more comp